BIB_ID
418942
Accession number
MA 9979.8
Creator
Davids, Caroline A. F. Rhys (Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys), 1857-1942.
Display Date
London, England, 1894 August 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Acquired as part of a large collection of letters addressed to William Angus Knight, Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and Wordsworth scholar. Items in the collection have been individually accessioned and cataloged.
Signed with her maiden name.
On stationery with engraved letterhead: "56, Russell Square. / (London. W.C.)"
This collection, MA 9979, is comprised of eleven letters and postcards from Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids to William Angus Knight, written between 1892 and 1899. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 9979.1-11).
Signed with her maiden name.
On stationery with engraved letterhead: "56, Russell Square. / (London. W.C.)"
This collection, MA 9979, is comprised of eleven letters and postcards from Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids to William Angus Knight, written between 1892 and 1899. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 9979.1-11).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him for a wedding present; describing her travel plans for September and October (first to the Yorkshire moors and then the United States); saying that she aims to send her reconstruction of George Croom Robertson's psychology lectures to Murray before her marriage in September; explaining that she is engaged in "rather renumerative work" to fund her lengthy tour and will not be able to address the philosophy lectures until the winter; saying that she will get both projects in to Murray by the end of the winter: "My (all-but) husband & I have such student-habits, that I have little doubt our tour will not swamp all our work;" telling him about her ascent of the Swiss mountain the Aiguille de la Tsa in July; writing in a postscript "I propose to retain my present name for literary purposes. We both think the wife's surrender of her name a very regrettable (or is it regretable) surrender to the exigences of social convenience, but not necessary beyond those exigences."
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